Artisan Boatworks is seeking an ambitious, passionate owner interested in rebuilding CYTHEREA (Ex FLACON); one of 7 original 10 Meters designed by Starling Burgess for members of the New York, Corinthian, and Seawanhaka yacht clubs; and built by Abeking & Rasmussen in 1927.

The service department at Artisan Boatworks cares for over 60 distinguished wooden boats, (up to 50’ LOA) which benefit from our purpose-built storage sheds that are designed for the optimal balance of ventilation and humidity.

Artisan Boatworks is offering this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to own and restore the 1903 Herreshoff Bar Harbor 31 JOKER. Once restored, she will debut as the only Bar Harbor 31 sailing with a gaff rig.

We are custom boatbuilders who build and restore wooden yachts designed and built by Nathanael Herreshoff, L. Francis Herreshoff, William Fife, Starling Burgess, K. Aage Nielsen, B. B. Crowninshield, John Alden, Sparkman & Stephens, Joel White, Henry B. Nevins Inc., Walsted Baadevaert Shipyard, and some of the premier Maine boatyards and Maine boatbuilders of the last century like Rice Brothers and Hodgdon Yachts.